indochina

hilltribe farm in northeast Cambodia

the winding road

The thatched hut of an ethnic minority farmer clings to the hillside of a cassava farm. This is Northeast Cambodia as it is today: the wild allure of virgin forrest replaced by a beauty more uniform, more cultivated, more agrarian.

Monsoons over the Rice Paddy

Monsoons in the Low Country

I’ve spent lots of time in the South of Cambodia over the last few weeks. Life is so different down there compared to the rolling hills of Ratanakiri. Endless rice fields and sugar palms as far as the eye can see, big white cows with humps on their shoulders, haystacks, and stately old wooden houses […]

sunset over the mekong

Evening in Kratie

Sunset over the Mekong river. Just shot this about 10 minutes ago, off of my hotel balcony in Kratie. Back in 2006 when I was traveling through Kracheh, I actually took a photo from this exact spot (same river, same hotel, same balcony), and posted it to Flickr. It was one of my earliest photos, […]

Cambodian Homestead

Old Time Kampuchea

I love those sugar palms. I think they make everything so exotic and tropical. Someday, I’ll plant a row down the promenade to my house… Siem Reap, Cambodia Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your blog, for fun and the like, but please […]

ancient stairs into wat phou

Ascending an Ancient Staircase

Flanked by arboreal sentries, gnarled guardians of a bygone era, a 1000-year-old staircase at Wat Phou ascend into the mountain to a linga bathed in a freshwater spring. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your blog, for fun and the like, but please […]

climbing the bolaven plateau

More photos from our Laos trip — ប្រទេស ឡាវ ឆ្នាំ ២០១៣

Here’s a few more photos from our trip to Laos last month. The country is so beautiful, mountainous and green I couldn’t help snap photos left and right, trying to (mostly unsuccessfully) capture the beauty and exotica around me. Our trusty Toyota 4-Runner faithfully bore us all over the Southern part of the country, with […]

Carving a pineapple, Cambodia style

Pineapple that doesn’t hurt your mouth…. ម្នស់

Cambodia has amazing pineapple, somehow perfectly grown and formulated to not hurt your mouth. And it’s always so artfully cut… And most fruit grown in country is organic; most of it isn’t certified (yet), but I’m sure someday it will be (someone needs to start an organic certification NGO). Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Please feel free […]

Wat Phu near pakse

Old tree, ancient stone – ដើម​ ឈើ ចាស់, ថ្ម បុរាណ។

On a work trip to Laos last month, Emily and I took a morning to go see Wat Phu. Wat Phu’s an ancient temple on the banks of the Mekong in Laos. The temple’s pretty cool. It’s partway up a mountain, right at the base of some huge stone cliffs. And the whole thing has […]

Tampuan girl with striking, light-colored eyes

Nearly Sharbat Gula

She had the most striking eyes; she’s one of the few Asians I’ve ever seen with this shade. I’ve seen other Tampuans with striking eyes, but normally for how intense and dark they are. She almost reminds me of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan girl of National Geographic fame. Please feel free to share my […]